Opnet technologies provides software tools for planning, modeling, and simulating communication networks and distribution systems. Alain received a degree in electrical engineering from the. Cohen is the chief executive officer, chief software architect, and. Alain cohen, a 20yearold mit student, developed opnet in 1986. Design is one of the important components of predictive network management, and we believe netmakers advanced technologies for automated network design are bestinclass, alain cohen, opnet. Opnet modeler provides a comprehensive development environment which is powerful for instance simulation, data analysis, model design and etc.
About opnet contd alain cohen, along with his brother marc and steven baraniuk, founded mil 3, inc. Rvbd, the performance company, and opnet technologies, inc. Cohen in 1986 and was headquartered in bethesda, md. Alain served as opnets president and cto until its sale in 2012 to riverbed technology. Marc cohen chairman, chief executive officer mel wesley chief financial officer. Opnet lab 1 opnetoptimized network engineering tools is. According to alain cohen, opnet president and cto, the need for integration between application and network performance management is becoming more acute as the application infrastructure becomes.
One burning question that arises from the acquisition news. I love the healthy vibe of bethesda and the wellnessminded attitude of the people who live and work here. I owe a debt of gratitude to sasha bailey of opnet for her help in making the software license available to my students and to me for implementing and testing the experiments. Companies use simulators to design their networks to get a feel for how they will perform under current. Opnet stands for optimizing network engineering tools 70. Together with my brother, alain, i have founded over half a dozen companies, in tech, biotech, and sports technology.
Standard or not, how cohen got opnet off the ground should interest entrepreneurs targeting the federal government market. We moved our first business, a publicly traded company called opnet, to bethesda, and became big fans of the area. Opnet technologies inc, a bethesda software company, said yesterday that it agreed to buy a north carolina software business, netmaker, in a cash and stock deal. Openet was founded in 1986 by brothers alain and marc cohen as a tiny. Opnet acquires dsauditorr product line from embarcadero. Researchers use network simulators to see how their protocols would behave if deployed. Opnet outline 1 about opnet 2 it guru academic edition 3. Cohen was co founder and president of opnet technologies, a nasdaq traded. This latest release will provide our users with powerful new options for implementing panorama in largescale environments. Alain served as opnet s president and cto until its sale in 2012 to riverbed technology. Alain cohen and marc cohen founded opnet technologies, a software company specializing in application and network performance management. The companys first product was opnet modeler, a software tool. Alain is an inventor on more than 60 patents relating to software, networks, electronics, algorithms, and simulation. Alain cohen london, united kingdom professional profile.
Its ok for the cars software to shut off all power. Alain j cohen is presidentcto at opnet technologies inc. Later on, these three guys agreed to make the networking software commercial and so the company opnet technologies, inc. Successful tech mergers require strong analysis and planning. Panorama appeals to a broad range of customers, from midsize organizations to very large, global enterprises, stated alain cohen, opnets president and chief technology officer. In teslas case, i fear the appropriate focus is missing. Opnet announces new software for 3d network visualization. Opnet and riverbed integrate solution storagenewsletter. It just happens to be done in a software approach, rather than an.
Riverbed to acquire opnet technologies inc riverbed us. Alain cohen massachusetts institute of technology washington. Marc a cohen is chairmanceosecretary at opnet technologies inc. Application performance management network planning and engineering network research and development. Opnet stands for optimized engineering tools, a graduate project for a course in networking at mit by alain cohen, his brother marc cohen, and classmate steven baraniuk. For the past two years, the irs has used application performance management software from opnet technologies in maryland to fix problems in the development of its portals that allow webbased tax. Panorama appeals to a broad range of customers, from midsize organizations to very large, global enterprises, stated alain cohen, opnet s president and chief technology officer. Riverbed said opnets ceo marc cohen and his brother alain cohen, who cofounded it, will join the company, but did not. Opnet announces solutions for high definition application.
Opnet, which stands for optimized network engineering tools, was launched in 1986 and based on founder alain j. Opnet optimized network engineering tools is a network simulator software program, and according to wikipedia is used to predict the behavior of networks and applications under different situations. View alain cohens profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. View alain cohens professional profile on linkedin. Opnet is committed to delivering solutions that keep us at the forefront of innovation in endtoend application performance management,stated alain cohen, opnet president and cto. The opnet software was funded in 1986 by alain cohen. Opnt, a world leader in application and network performance management. Alain and his brother marc brought opnet public on the nasdaq stock exchange in 2000 and today alain serves as. Marc and alain cohen founded opnet in 1986, taking the company public in 2000. According to alain cohen, opnet president and cto, opnet is recognized for the breadth of our application performance management solutions, with realtime endto. He has led the design and development of many of the companys software products which are aimed at resolving and preventing problems in networks and distributed applications. Opnet modeler is generally used by researchers, developing protocol designers and so on. Cohen, opnets president and chief technical officer, said the company hired 10 percent more people last year and expects to hire more this year.
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